Now, we are going to take those five positions and we are just going to look at groups of two strings. For now; the first two are going to be the low E and the A string. We are just going to take a simple pattern and then we are going to move up and down the neck and through the five positions. So here is the pattern and then we will break it down.
So starting on the fifth fret on the low E, this is the first position. We are going to play five, eight on the low E. Then five, seven, five, on the A. Then we are going to have eight, five, eight on the low E. Now, picking for this, we are going to play a down stroke on the fifth fret on the low E then hammer on the eighth fret. We are going to have an up-down-up on the A string. Then we are going to have a down stroke on the eighth fret on the A; pull-off to five and then hammer back on the eighth, so. Try that a little bit faster.
We tried that a little bit faster and the aim really is to kind of get it as fast as you can get it but just keep it nice and clean. And then as you get more confident playing it then we can start moving it up through the positions. Okay, what we are going to be doing is we are just going to be taking that pattern and moving it through the first five notes of each position that we looked up. So a slow tempo will look like this. Okay so, a little bit quicker and up to speed.
If you can get some palm muting in there as well, that can kind of separate the notes a lot more and give it more of a percussive feel and which is definitely kind of what you want to achieve playing more of a metal style. So let me just play that again really accent in the palm muting with the right hand.
Now, we are going to take that pattern and move it to the next group of strings, which should be the D and the G string. Still starting on the first position shape, we are going to have this for the first one. This is five-seven on a D, five-seven on the G. So we are pretty much going to be moving again through the middle of each of the pentatonic shapes. And the next one is going to look like this, then position three, position four and position five. When you join that up with the same pattern as the low E and the A strings that we just looked up should sound like this at slow tempo. A little bit quicker. And up to speed.
For that exercise, it was little harder to get the palm muting in and just because your palm is not near the bottom strings so it is going to sound a little bit more open. But the difference between the low strings and the mid strings with the palm muting kind of allows for that do not make difference. So when playing on the low strings, it is nice to get the palm muting in there. But as you go higher up there, higher up the guitar or towards the floor or towards the body of the guitar, the dynamic changes quite nice to have that.
Now we are going to move to the next group of strings, which is the B and high E string. Using the same pattern again, moving through positions one to five, slow, this is what it look like. A little bit quicker. And up to speed. On the end there and that is actually that bend on the eighth fret on the B string. So when you bend up the eighth fret on the B string, just give it simple on the end just to add a little bit more attitude.
The only thing behind practicing pentatonics like is just to kind of isolate the actual scale on how it moves up the neck. Breaking it down into two string sections just allows you to see in a linear fashion how it goes up the neck. And also, adding the sequence in there as well kind of makes it a bit more musical and something that you could probably use in your everyday playing. And you know also, it come best in our boredom within learning scales. We just make it a bit more interesting and a bit more fun to do.
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